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Locating early Homo and Homo erectus tool production along the extractive foraging/cognitive continuum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2003

Sue Taylor Parker
Sue Taylor Parker
Affiliation:
Anthropology Department, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94982 Parker@Sonoma.edu
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Abstract

This commentary contests Wynn's diagnosis of the cognitive implications of the earliest stone tools and Acheulian tools. I argue that the earliest stone tools imply greater cognitive abilities than those of great apes, and that Acheulian tools imply more than the preoperational cognitive abilities Wynn suggests. Finally, I suggest an alternative adaptive scenario for the evolution of hominid cognitive abilities.

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Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , June 2002 , pp. 414 - 415
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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